uname question after update

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Jan 15 19:43:53 UTC 2007


Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay Chandler wrote:
>> FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 
>> 12 20:01:29 PST 2007     
>> root at box1.mydomain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>> FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat Jan 
>> 13 15:40:40 PST 2007     
>> root at box2.chapman.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>>
>> What does the #0 / #4 mean?
>
> The number of times you have rebuilt the kernel.
>
> (This number gets reset when the OS version gets bumped, I believe.)
>
> ---Chuck

Hmm.. that's a new 'feature'. Can that be disabled in any way?
-Garrett


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